Jessie Willcox Smith

Jessie Willcox Smith
Smith c. 1900
Born	(1863-09-06)September 6, 1863 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	May 3, 1935(1935-05-03) (aged 71) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Known for	Illustrations
Movement	The Golden Age of Illustration
Awards	1902 – Bronze Medal Charleston Exposition 1903 – Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1911 – Beck Prize from Philadelphia Water Color Club 1915 – Silver Medal at the Panama–Pacific Exposition[1]
Elected	Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame, 1992
Years active	1880–1935

Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration.^[2] She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators".^[3] A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933. Smith illustrated over sixty books, including notable works like Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.